Regular readers of Hackaday will know that the projects we feature are generally of the high-tech variety. Microcontrollers, 3D printed parts, embedded Linux, lots of wires, that sort of thing. But that’s not to say we don’t appreciate the somewhat more visceral builds out there; after all, hacking is about creative problem solving and thinking
Read MoreAre you ready for the Star Trek metaverse? | Image: Paramount Paramount is launching its NFT marketplace / metaverse / annoying marketing stunt that fans are already angry about with Star Trek non-fungible tokens (or NFTs.) The company partnered with Recur to create a platform called Paramount.xyz, which it says will “bring Paramount’s beloved entertainment
Read MoreFollowing the trend for cloud solution providers to provide a one-stop platform for all data, Google Cloud has released new tools that enable enterprises not only to generate business insights but also to perform data engineering operations. According to the company, one of the many challenges that enterprises face today is managing data across disparate
Read MoreThe past few years have seen an explosion in the rate of cybercrime globally – especially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the widespread switch to online operations. According to cybersecurity experts, losses due to data breaches this year will exceed $6 trillion worldwide. That’s over 60 times the total tally of cybercrime
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Pinterest announces a comprehensive policy to ban ads and posts that feature climate misinformation, the first major online platform to do so — Pinterest announced today it’s becoming the first major digital platform to introduce a comprehensive misinformation policy designed to combat false …
Read MoreSarah and Helena bonding over their physical similarities. | Image: Temple Street Productions Though the original Orphan Black series seemingly brought the story of Sarah Manning (Tatiana Maslany) and her sprawling family tree of sister clones to a close, AMC’s gearing up to return to their world with an all-new live-action series. Per The Hollywood
Read MoreMotorola is prepping the Motorola Moto G Stylus 5G. New model will feature 5G, performance, and screen improvements. The phone will still feature same large battery and camera. Motorola appears to have another Moto G Stylus on the way, bringing 5G and other improvements. The Moto G Stylus is the company’s mid-range device, and one
Read MoreImage: Valve The best thing about the Steam Deck has nothing to do with its specs. Rather, its carrying case is my favorite non-feature feature that vastly improves the Deck’s esteem in ways its technical capabilities haven’t yet. My first delightful surprise was the arrival of the case itself. I did not expect to get
Read MoreWe are big fans of the Falstad circuit simulator. Sure, it isn’t perfect, but there’s nothing else like it when you want to whip up a simple circuit. But we were blown away when we saw a more or less complete hardware implementation of Pong in Falstad. No kidding. Starting with the original schematics, there
Read MoreThe servers will stay up, but Ubisoft is no longer creating new content. | Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft is no longer creating new content for Ghost Recon Breakpoint, the company announced Tuesday. The game gained some notoriety for its heavily criticized Digits NFTs from Ubisoft’s Quartz platform, and the end of content creation means that there
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Blah There are a lot of apps on the Google Play Store. According to Statista, the official Android app store holds around 3.5 million applications. The chances are good that a large chunk of those apps are way out of date. In most cases, an outdated app poses little
Read MoreDara Kerr / The Markup: A report says over 50 gig workers have been killed while working in the US since 2017; families of the slain workers say Uber, Lyft, and others often do little — New report lists Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and Grubhub worker victims, and the tally is likely even higher
Read MoreIs the widget for your favorite app missing? Here are some ways to fix it. With iOS 14, Apple gave users the ability to have widgets anywhere on the Home screen, not just in a separate view. Along with creating custom app icons without having to jailbreak, this was a significant step forward in iOS
Read MoreHow do you use iMessage to send text, pictures, videos, sound, location, and more — right from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac? iMessage is Apple’s built-in instant messaging (IM) service. It lets you send text, picture, video, sound, and location quickly and easily to anyone using iMessage on iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch. There’s
Read MoreMenopause is the time of life when menstrual periods come to a halt, and a woman is no longer able to bear children. The most obvious cause of menopause is when the ovaries run out of eggs, though it can also be caused by a variety of other medical processes. While menopause is in many
Read MoreThe wallet will have USB-C and a fingerprint reader. | Image: @JesseDorogusker on Twitter We may have just seen the Bitcoin hardware wallet that Jack Dorsey’s Block (the company formerly known as Square) is working on, a device to help people “safely own and manage their Bitcoin,” according to the company. Block’s hardware lead, Jesse
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Meta won’t be holding its F8 developer conference in 2022, the company announced Wednesday. “Similar to years past, we are taking a brief break in programming and will not hold F8 in 2022 while we gear up on new initiatives that are all tailored towards the next chapter
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: Meta won’t hold its F8 dev conference in 2022, instead holding a “business messaging event” called Conversations on May 19, and an AR/VR event later this year — Meta is pausing the event in 2022 — Meta won’t be holding its F8 developer conference in 2022, the company announced Wednesday.
Read MoreJonathan Greig / The Record: The DOJ charges Russian national Dmitry Olegovich Pavlov with running the Hydra Market darknet, after German police shut the service down — The US Justice Department on Tuesday filed charges against Dmitry Olegovich Pavlov, a 30-year-old Russian national accused of a range of crimes connected to …
Read MoreMusk’s appointment could herald a controversial push for “free speech” and invite more scrutiny from the SEC.
Read MoreGlobes Online: Israeli company Tufin, which offers security policy management tools, agrees to be acquired by Turn/River Capital for $570M in cash — The US software investment company is paying a 44% premium on the Israeli company’s closing share price on Wall Street yesterday.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Google removes dozens of Android apps, including several Muslim prayer apps with 10M+ downloads, after researchers find malware tied to a US defense contractor — Code placed in consumer-facing apps is tied to U.S. national-security contractors, documents show
Read MoreZack Whittaker / TechCrunch: In a court-authorized March operation, FBI removed Cyclops Blink botnet, tied to Russia-backed Sandworm, from thousands of Asus and WatchGuard routers in the US — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has disclosed it carried out an operation in March to mass-remove malware from thousands …
Read More“DNA double helix,” AndreaLaurel, CC 2.0 — source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/81461206@N02/7490001992/ Sequencing an entirely complete human genome has been the work of decades. Twenty years ago, the Human Genome Project (HGP) declared their work finished, with an asterisk. Even a decade later, fully eight percent of the genome — so-called “junk DNA” — was beyond our understanding.
Read MoreA new report claims that companies like Lyft and Uber offer meager assistance to the loved ones of workers slain on the job.
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